ABSTRACT
Morality is often presumed to be the essence or greatest contribution of religion. People who know or value little else about religion may esteem it for its moral qualities; parents may expose their children to religion solely for the purpose of making them “good.” In fact, some argue that it is impossible to be “good without God” (which raises the doubly awkward problem that “good” is a relative term and that not all religions have gods). C. S. Lewis, the author of Mere Christianity (1952) and one of the leading advocates for Christianity in the twentieth century, went so far as to insist that the very existence of human morality was evidence of a god.
